Hub-liner



J. W. WOLFENDEN.

HUB LINER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 13, 1920.

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I JOH'N WILLIAM WOLFEN DEN, 0F NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.

HUB-LINER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 28, 1921,

Application med November 13, 1920. Serial No. 423,923.

'in hub liners, anobject of the invention being to provide a device of thistype which may be located around the drive shaft of a locomotive truck between the driving box and hub of the drive wheel, to take up lateral wear on the parts.

A further object is to provide an improved hub liner which may be readily attached or detached to a shaft or journal without removing any of the otherparts of the machine. I

While the primary object is to furnish a hub liner for use on engine trucks, it is obvious that the device may be utilized in various connections.

It is a further object, therefore, of my invention to provide a two part disk or ring constituting a liner which may be attached to any shaft and locked in position thereon.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a View in transverse section through my improved hub liner taken on theline 1-1 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation thereof.

Fig. 3 is an edge view thereof.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary view illustrating the method of bending a cleat over a wire to lock the sections together.

Referring; in detail to the drawings, my improved hub liner is in the form of a ring, and it comprises two. interfitting ring sections 1 and 2. The ring sections are formed with opposed semi-circular recesses 3 forming a circular opening when the sections are locked together.

The main section 1 includes a pair of parallel arms 1' which receive the section 2 between them. Beveled tongues 4 on the inner ends of section 2 look in beveled recesses 5 in the section 1.

When the two sections have been placed on a shaft, it is necessary to lock them against radial movement and also against independent lateral movement. With this end in View, I provide bendable cleats 6, on the periphery of the sections adjacent their meeting edges. A strip of wire 7 bent into arcuate form has its intermediate portion located around the outer edge or periphery .of the section 2, and its ends extending over the adjacent outer face of section 3. The cleats 6 may then be bent over the wire 7 as shown in Fig! 4 to securely lock' the same in position.

The wire 7 thus effectively prevents radial movement of the sections relative to the shaft, and cooperates with the tongues 4 and grooves 5 to prevent independentlateral movement of the sections relative to each other. I

The hub liner may be applied to any desired part of a shaft totake up lateral wear, and by'merely bending the cleats and removmg the wire may be easily removed from a shaft by pulling the two sections apart. j

Various slight changes and alterations mlght be made in the general form of the parts described without departing from my invention, andhence I do not wish to limit myself to the precise details set forth but shall consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as. fairly fall within the pended claims.

What I claim is:

' .1. A device of the character stated comprising, a pair of interfitting ring sections having opposed semicircular recesses therein, bendable cleats fixed to the periphery of both sections adjacent their meeting edges, and an arcuate length of wire clamped against the periphery of both sections by said cleats.

2. A device of the character stated comprising, a pair of interfitting ring sections having opposed semi-circular recesses therein, one of said sections including a pair of arms having their inner facesparallel, the other section fitting between said arms, bendable cleats on the outside edges of the arms. bendable cleats on the periphery of the last mentioned ring section, an arcuate length of wire having its intermediate portion located against the periphery of the last menspirit and scope of the aptioned section, and its ends located against J OHN WILLIAM WDLFENDEN. 

